Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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